The purpose of our study is to find out how educators see motor skills in relation to learning and find out how they work with them. Our study will be based on a teachers perspective, since it is their view on motor control and learning we intend to examine.
Our questions in this investigation are as follows:
• How do educators see motor skills in relation to learning?
• In what way do teachers give the students an opportunity to develop their motor skills and find time for movement in the classroom?
• How do educators perceive that motor training affects learning?
We have utilized qualitative interviews with seven teachers at a school in a medium-sized town in the south of Sweden. The first two teachers were contacted using e-mail, and based on them, the remaining five were selected using the snowball method.
The results of our study show that educators stands positive to motor skills in relation to learning. Despite this the majority do not give students any opportunity for conscious motor training in the classroom even though the educators consider that this is something that affects learning.